Abstract: A fuel and method for conversion of sesquiterpenes to high density fuels. The sesquiterpenes can be either extracted from plants or specifically produced by bioengineered organisms from waste biomass. This approach allows for the synthesis of high performance renewable fuels.

Abstract: In a device for moving a slide from a slide tray via a slide chute (3) into a slide gate, an integral component (1) is provided which includes the slide chute (3), a support means for a motor-driven cam (15) and support means for a slide lifter (22), slide pressure means (24, 26) and a tray release lever (16) adapted to arrest a slide tray as well as supporting guide means (6, 6a) for the tray release lever (16) and guides (8d, 8e) adapted to receive the lens mount.

Abstract: A film slide feeder serially translates each slide from a feed hopper through a slide tray extending through imaging equipment to a receive hopper for duplicating, digitizing or superimposing the image presented by each slide to the imaging equipment.

Abstract: A slide magazine has a base portion and partitioning walls which project upwardly away from the base portion at mutual spacings to form compartments for accommodating respective slide frames. The partitioning walls are of a height which is adapted to the slide frames and at their ends remote from the base portion are connected together by a strip-shaped holding portion extending over the length of the slide magazine so each compartment can be loaded and unloaded from both sides. To prevent the slide frame in a compartment from falling out laterally, provided at each side of each compartment is at least one resilient retaining portion in the form of a resilient finger with a retaining nose arranged to engage the slide frame.

Abstract: A system for facilitating the handling of overhead projector transparencies on an overhead projector of the type including an upwardly facing projector platen. The system includes a frame assembly to provide a support surface adjacent the projector platen. A transparency storage cassette is supported on the support surface in alignment with the projector platen and generally includes a housing defining a closed chamber. An upwardly biased follower plate is mounted within the chamber to support a stack of transparencies. A door allows loading of the transparencies into the chamber. Between the door and the follower plate is a cam arrangement to move the follower plate downwardly against the bias when the door is moved to an open position to thereby facilitate the loading of the transparencies into the chamber.

Abstract: A slide projector having a projector frame and a light source and lens assembly mounted on the frame which includes a cassette having a plurality of slide frame receptacles for receiving slide frames therein. The cassette is movable so as to bring selected slide frames into a dispensing position. A frame grabber mounted on the projector frame is movable in a direction perpendicular to the lens axis from a projection position in which an image of an engaged slide can be projected to a dispensing position in which slide frames can be sequentially brought into alignment with the grabber. Once engaged by the grabber, a selected aligned slide frame can be extracted from the cassette and moved to the projection position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a slide magazine with housing, open at the top, a slide projector with a picture-changing device having a horizontally actuated slide pusher. The housing, which can be mounted immovably in the projector, has, approximately in the longitudinal center of a longitudinal wall, an opening for a slide, opposite which there is a deflector with a deflecting surface, which runs at an angle to the longitudinal center plane of the housing. In the area of the deflector, a transporting lever, which can be moved transversely to the longitudinal center plane from a resting position to a working position, and which has a working surface that works together with the slide pusher, is mounted especially so that it can be swivelled. With the transporting lever in the resting position, the working surface protrudes into the path of the slide pusher. However, when the transporting lever is in the working position, the working surface is arranged outside of this path.

Abstract: A slide projector has a slide exchange element and a slider movable on the latter and having different widths suitable for magazines with different slide compartment widths, wherein the slider is engageable with the slide exchange element under the action of a spring in direction normal to the displacement direction of the slide exchange element, a magazine sensing element senses a magazine inertable into a respective magazine path and provides for disengagement of the slider from the slide exchange element, and an abutment slides in the displacement path of the slider in the disengaged position of the same.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for viewing photographic slides carried in a long magazine by a slide projector which is configured to accept only a circular slide magazine or carrousel. This invention provides a simple and efficient mechanism for using long magazines with a circular magazine projector without the need of first transferring by hand all of the slides from the long magazine into a circular magazine. An attachment adapted to be fastened to the projector housing has a covered channel for accepting and advancing a long magazine inserted therein. Adjacent the long magazine within the attachment is an intermediate storage tray which contains slide compartments and which is moved synchronously with the long magazine. Slanting guide rails extend from the long magazine to the intermediate storage tray, and these rails individually transfer the slides from the long magazine into the storage tray as the long magazine is advanced.

Abstract: A diaprojector for framed diapositives accommodated in at least two different magazines has two tracks each for a respective one of the magazines having smaller and greater diapositive compartment widths, a drive for gradually transporting each of the magazines by a distance corresponding to the width of the diapositive compartments, a sliding element having a width suitable for exchanging the diapositives in one of the magazines, and a rider having a width suitable for exchanging of the diapositives in the other magazine and displaceable on the sliding element between two positions in which either the sliding element or the rider is available for acting upon the respective magazine, and a sensing device operative for blocking the operation of the projector, when the position of the rider does not correspond to the magazine in which the diapositives must be exchanged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a slide projector with automatic slide changer and stationary slide magazines (10,11) on each side of the optical pathway of the projector, the respective slide magazine (10,11) provided in the shortside with a feed and discharge opening for slide frames (8) which is located in the focal plane of the slide projector. Between the slide magazines (10,11) a slide frame transport device is located, which consists of two toothed belts (2,3) provided with external dog members (7) for transporting the slide frames (8) from one slide magazine (10) to the other (11), and vice versa. In the projection position of the slide projector support members (12,13 and, respectively, 16,17) facing to the toothed belts (2,3) are provided for the slide frames (8). Levers (20,21) are provided behind the toothed belts (2,3) directly in front of the respective slide magazine (10,11) for inserting the slide frames (8).

Abstract: A microfiche reader and/or enlarger has a housing provided with an opening. The microfiches are stored in hard-cover files having a pair of covers between which a series of pockets is located, with the individual pockets being connected to one another and the two end pockets each being connected to one of the covers. When the covers are moved from parallel to coplanar position the pockets assume a fan-shaped outline; when the file is attached to the opening in this position with the pockets projecting into the housing, inner open ends of the pockets are accessible to a gripper on a pivot arm which can be moved opposite any selected one of the open ends. The gripper can then extract the microfiche from the selected pocket and subsequently reinsert it thereinto.

Abstract: A slide projector having a slidably movable magazine with slides, a platform to receive a slide from the magazine, a first support member to transport a slide from the magazine into the platform and a second support to return the used slide from the platform into the magazine. The first support is rigidly mounted on a slidably movable carriage and adapted to push each successive slide from the magazine when the latter is in alignment with the platform. The second support is pivotally mounted on the slide carriage which moves in the direction toward or backward from the magazine. The second support is a three-linked member adapted to engage the used slide to push the latter back to the magazine and having a pin between a first lever and a second lever. A cammed surface is provided in the housing which engages the pin upon slidable movement of the carriage.

Abstract: A number of format films carrying fixed information to be recorded together with computer output information given by a magnetic tape are vertically stacked in a cassette. The cassette is supported on a vertically movable cassette support. At a predetermined level which is of the same level as a projection station where the format film is brought and the image of the film is projected there is provided a format film gripping device. The format film gripping device has a fixed arm and a swingable arm which are opened at the cassette and closed to grip one of the format films in the cassette when the gripping device is driven to take out one of the format films from the cassette and brings the taken out format film to the projection station. The vertically movable cassette support is moved up and down stepwisely to selectively bring one of the format films to be projected to the predetermined level where the format film is taken out of the cassette and brought to the projection station.

Abstract: A slide projector is juxtaposed with a slide magazine in a housing. One of the projector and magazine is movably mounted so that each slide may be aligned with where it may be loaded into the projector and unloaded back into the magazine. At the loading station a pair of pivotable, opposed toggles operated by an eccentric device frictionally rollingly grip and release two opposite edges of the slide with reversibly driven rollers. In a disclosed elaboration, a plurality of slide magazines are disposed on a spider, which may be rotated to bring any selected magazine into juxtaposition with the projector. In the elaborated version shown, the slide projector is laterally movably mounted for temporary retraction during indexing of the spider.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a projector comprising two optical systems enabling transparencies to be projected with cross-fading, in 3-D and with double-width panning, said projector operating with a single transparency distributing and recuperating magazine, in which the transparencies are arranged in the same order as if they were to pass in a single-lens projector; said projector comprises four parallel transparency guide slots, which are parallel to one another and transverse with respect to the axes of two optical systems in which the transparencies circulate in pairs, said guide slots being extended by a switching means whose role is to cause the transparencies which have already been projected to pass from the forward guide slots into the return guide slots, and thus to cause the transparencies to return to the same compartment of the same magazine from which they left. These displacements are possible due to a recuperator having multiple functions.

Abstract: A photographic slide magazine with an individual compartment for each slide has a spring arranged in each compartment protruding through the bottom of the compartment. The springs for all compartments are connected to a common strip and their free ends rest in a recess extending along the length of the adjacent wall of the magazine.

Abstract: A slide projector with controls for the slide changing system and for the stop associated with the slide changing system where there are separately moving insertion and storage feeder arms for the slide changer, and at least two routes for inserting and removing the slides. Preferred motor driven cams (B",R",S",T") act as controls for the stop (8,11) and for slide changing and are operationally timed so that the closing process for the stop is initiated simultaneously or nearly simultaneously with the beginning of the removal of the projected slide (19a) from the slide stage plane and with the insertion of a new slide (19c). The process of stop opening begins immediately and without any pause after the complete closure of the stop which coincides with the terminated insertion of the new slide.

Abstract: A double slide projector having two slide projection assemblies, a common magazine for slides, and a common slide changer, uses a motion transmitting arrangement from a drive to the changer so that the changer is moved a full stroke for moving slides from the magazine to the more remote projection assembly and the changer motion is blocked at a partial stroke for movement of slides from the magazine to the nearer projection assembly. A drive provides sufficient movement to move the changer for a full stroke for each actuation, and a slip clutch is arranged in the motion transmitting device so that the changer can move alternately between a full-stroke and a blocked or partial-stroke position. A double-track cam is preferred for the drive, and an arrangement of levers connected through the slip clutch is preferred for transmitting motion from the cam to the gripper portion of the slide changer.

Abstract: A dual or twin projector arranged to take picture slides from a single magazine located between the two projectors, and to return the slides to the same magazine after projection, in proper order ready for another projection operation. The planes of the picture gates of the two projectors are slightly staggered or offset from each other in the direction of the optical axis, preferably by a distance equal to the spacing of the slides in the magazine, so that, for certain types of operation, one slide may be fed from the magazine to one projector simultaneously with the feeding of the next slide from the magazine to the other projector.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method for handling and reading any one of a number of film strips, each having a number of segments with each segment containing a plurality of information-containing, high-reduction image frames. The film strips are housed in a cassette which is movable with respect to a fixed reference to align a desired film strip with a reading station disposed across the optical path of an optical system. A film strip is moved out of the cassette by a force applied to one of its side edges. Control information carried by each film strip is sensed as the film strip moves out of the cassette and the sensed information is used to control the distance through which the film strip moves so that a particular segment thereof will stop at the reading station. The optical system is moved relative to the reading system so that the optical path of the optical system is selectively alignable with a particular image frame of the film strip removed from the cassette.

Abstract: A microfiche carrier has mechanically interlocking features which makes it possible to store a library file of microfiche in a cartridge so that it is not necessary to manually manipulate the individual microfiche. The reader automatically extracts a selected microfiche from a cartridge and then returns it to the vacated cartridge location. The interlocks prevent movement of the reader parts in a sequence which would damage the microfiche while they are out of the cartridge.

Abstract: The inventive cartridge includes a hollow outer shell with an open front that enables microfiche to slide into or out of the shell. Inside the shell are a plurality of shelves for holding the microfiche in a spaced parallel relationship with respect to each other. Supported on the cartridge is a detent which prevents the microfiche from falling out of the cartridge. The outside contours of the cartridge cooperate with the reader to insure a proper sequence of operations during cartridge loading or unloading.

Abstract: A slide projector adapted to alternately receive at least two slide trays having different shapes and different indexing configurations is provided. The projector comprises a slide tray receiving groove having tray guide means for slidably engaging corresponding support surfaces formed on the slide trays, and a reversible slide tray indexing mechanism having an indexing lever mounted for slidable and pivotable movement and including a pair of pawls for sequential engagement with the respective indexing racks of the alternate trays, to incrementally advance either of said trays from one slide position to the next. A reciprocal slide carrier for transporting the slides from the trays to the viewing position is provided with a camway in operative engagement with the indexing lever to impart the required movement thereto during each slide changing cycle.

Abstract: A slide projector adapted to alternately receive at least two slide trays having different shapes and different indexing configurations is provided. The projector includes a slide tray receiving groove having tray guide means for slidably engaging corresponding support surfaces formed on the slide trays, and an indexing mechanism having suitable drive gears for engagement with either of the alternate trays, to incrementally advance either of said trays from one slide position to the next. The projector also includes in one embodiment slidable tray retainer means normally biased into the tray receiving groove to support the edge of one said trays to maintain the same in engagement with the indexing mechanism, and means to urge such retainer out of the tray receiving groove upon insertion therein of the other of said trays.

Abstract: In a slide projector a plurality of slide films contained in a tray are successively selected and shifted to a projected position. A switch is provided which controls movement through a clutch to a running motor of each slide film between its tray-stored position and its projection position and also movement of the tray itself. This switch serves also as a switch for resetting a timer which holds each slide film in its projected position for any desired time.

Abstract: In a slide projector having a partioned magazine for insertion into a magazine guide track so that the in turn, effective ejection side of the magazine is at right angles to or generally at right angles to the horizontal film aperture, the improvement comprising the operative bearing side of the magazine opposite the leading edge of the image stage side of the contained slide in the projector is foreshortened and the magazine guide path (1), considered in crosssection, is provided with a step (7) at least in the region of the film aperture (6), the profile of this step (7) adapted so that the bearing side (8) of the magazine containing a slide (10), and the face (10a) of the step which is situated at a higher level and thus suitable for receiving the slides as soon as the magazine is inserted, continues in the form of the film aperture (11).

Abstract: A container for dispensing reagent slides into apparatus which uses the slides to carry out quantitative chemical analysis of fluid samples. The container is formed of a plurality of casing parts which, when joined together, for a generally rectangular housing with a chamber for receiving a stack of the slides. The container fits into a complementary shaped nest in the analysis apparatus and has discontinuity means for inhibiting improper orientation of the container in the nest. A notch code on the container cooperates with structure on the nest to inhibit placing into the nest a container carrying reagent slides improper for the analysis test to be conducted.